Measuring mechanism for composing-machines.



J. S. BANCROFT.

MEASURING MECHANISM FOR COMPOSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED Aus.16. l9l8.

.1 00,237, Patenfed Apr. 15, 1919.

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I. s. BANCROFT. MEASURING MECHANISM FOR COMPOSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I6. I918.

Patented Apr. 15, l919.

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Be a known that I, J0HN;s 1a es Bis-, onor'r, a citizeniof the United Stat'es, and, 1" a resident of Philadelphia, county of Phila 5 delphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new {andiuseful :Improve- 'ments 1n Measur ng Mechamsm for )G omposing-Machinesg and-l do hereby declare description of the same,,reference being *had to the accompanyingdrawings, fprm-ing part 'i a of this specification,-and to the characters of reference marked thereon. I

This invention relates to measurlng mechanism for composing machines, particuv 'larly for'keyboard machines er the type-in.

which the manual operation of keys ,pro-

duces signals, preferably; inrthe. form of J perforations in paper'ribbons or controllerssuch v as are employed tq :control the action J of automatic :typeoasting and composing machines, the measuring mechanism of such,

keyboard machine jalso'being operated to measure for each signal the; set :width of the type represented by said signal, and to totalize these measurements as the line is being composed. The objeotof the present invention is to provide a measuring mech- Figure 1 is a front elevation of measuring device embodying .the present i-nven-l 'tion.

Fig. 2- is a sectional i plan oniapproximately line 2-2of Fig. 1. I i

j Fig. 3 is an-elevationt oflc'ert'aln parts-of J 1 I p M rim-42' has come, intocontact with its stop,-f

said device, other parts being in'section;

1 Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4i-4Fig;r

1,'s'howing,a portion of the rear stop "mechanism for sa1d measur1ng dev ceias well as. operating parts thereforand .Fig. ,5 is a sectional. view substantiallyon the line 5-5, Fig. 1, showing the forward sto mechanism and operating partsibut V H 1 teeth of thepawl12'outofengagementvnth 10 5 v omitting theunits wheel.

MEAsUnI ve vrEcHAnrsMnon' oonrosnve-ivmcnmnsi it'her'eindescribedis that ofUnitedis'sf I i States; Patent ,#944:,405,Ydated December 1 28th, ,1909, to the specification of which at; tention is directed gfora fulljand complete description of the machine, it being suf;

ficientifor present purposes toi designate, in 0 general- 01 3? 'thQSB Parts thereof with which the mechanism of the present invention is. more v n m yfrelat d; f a l (e ploying the 1 same. reference numerals, as

hese 10f t e P t t.) e rene a we n' 7 universal bar 19 (Figgt) carried'on'a shaft 34 to 'whiehis securedtheaarm 50 operating;

I said; levers'being: operated by the vertical ar rl op r ve y. p nn t d with certiain of thesaid punchgbars, namely, v I thosey iwhich are known as dimensioning.'- g i punch bars' :the units rack '11 ,:-slidable in 7 the iinitsera'ck carrier .42, provided with ,the

' ofi-setj54 and operatedfrQmi the iever'na I thennits wheel 7 thepawl l2, the link 58, 1;:

the lever 76-1 carrying thepin GQLengagingM the'slot 6 3 in the dependent ar1n=64 :theSO restoring lever'lfl operated throu h theglinkii 751and arm"? 6 from the shaft 7 operateid bv the restoring motor (not shown) 3 When a key of the composing,machine is depressed one or more punch barsiand as sociated punches are/moved.upwardlyythe latter-perforating a controllerstrip' or rib-f Icon in accordance with theparticula n'keyi 1" depressed. The; upward, movement of I the.

punchbar'raises the universalibar l9 thus 9elowering the arm '50 and: link 51,, and operatingathe lever: 52 to raise its front end and within theleft end pr lever 53 n .;1 ,1

Duringtheifirst part of this movement the rig'ht hand endi of lever 53 acts as .a pivot,i I I but 'when the offset 5.4: 'ofsthelunits rack cara as-showm in which position the :unitsgrack 11 earried'by the carrier 42': has itsteeth" properlyin mesh with the units wheel 7, the I; f leven53-lcentrally.,pivots 'atpthe point of its connection \ivith the oilset 5450 that further! movement produces downward movement of; therightend ofthe lever 53, thus" moving the;

l the units rack to the right until it comes now rotatedbysuitable and well known mo- I tor means which is coupled up with the units wheel so as to'tend to rotate it in a.counterclock-wisedirection at all times except when the restoring mechanism is brought into action, as when the end of a line of composition has been reached and it is desired .to...

restore the parts to position for beginning the next line.' Such counter-clockwise or forward rotation of the units wheel draws against a stop bar 13 projected into its path, whereupon the parts all come to rest, as

punch' bar, has also moved upwardly the particular stop bar 13 with which it is connected by a lever acting to move downwardly the bar 40 (Fig. 5') to move upwardly the selected stop bar 13 upon the end of its lever 41. "Each of the stop bars and its operating punch bar is operated by the de-' pression of a key or keys representing characters of definite set wise dimension and the stop bars are so located thatthey cause 7. rotation of the units wheel to cease when it has by its rotation measured inunits the ,,disengage the. units rack} from the units 'wheel so that the rack may be returned as proper setwise dimension of the character struck. Upon the release of the depressed key the universal bar will move downwardly and the left handend of lever 53 will also move downwardly; its right hand end moving upwardly to cause the pawll2 to engage with the units wheel teeth and the center of thelever thereafter moving downwardly to byspringpressure means to its initial position at the left whereit is stopped against a rear or zero stop 24:.

It is apparent that the movement back and forth of theunit rack and the operations.

of the mechanisms just described,must take place every time a key is struck. When the operation of the .keys is very, rapid and. especially when the operation of the meas; uring .device is brought about by the use of an automatic repeat mechanism, such as is well known in the art,.the blows of the unit rack upon .boththe forward and rear- 7 ward stops are considerable. The stops shown, .both the forward stop 13 and the,

rear or zero stop 24 are constructed substantially to prevent a rebound of the unit rack upon impact. These stop mechanisms are fully described in United States Patent No.

1,193,346 dated August 1st, 1916, and need not be described indetail at the present time. The present inventlon contemplates improvements in measuring mechanism the object of which is to render it more certain and durable in its operation for which purpose the various parts have been made as light as possible, the weight has been carefully (listrihuted, the forces and shocks carefully proportioned and directed and the unit rack and the spring pressure means for returning it to its zero position have been definitely located with respect to the unit wheel. In the structure of this invention the return pull of the unit rack is in a direction which is exactly opposite to the force which drives it forwardly; the rack itself is constructed with a horizontal bearing surface and the forces for moving the rack in both directions have no tendency to move it laterally or to remove it from said surface. Other changes are also incorporated as will clearly appear in the following description.

The unit rack is returned by means of a lever 20 pivoted to the machine frame at the point 25, and resting against the head 11 of the unit rack 11 at the lower end of said lever 20*.

This lever is formed of a single integral piece of sheet metal by bending, the upper part being bifurcated, one of the bifurcations being in front of the units wheel and the other one behind the units wheel. The lower spring portion of the lever is extremely light and extends downwardly from the bifurcated portion curving in a direction substantially corresponding with the curvature of the units wheel until its lower end reaches the units rack head. It will be observed that the lower portion of the lever is in the plane of the units wheel and is yieldable in said plane while rigid laterally thereof. The bifurcated upper end of the lever is extremely strong and rigid though light and straddles the wheel so that the lever is in all respects symmetrically located with respect to the plane of the units wheel. The spring 22 secured at one end to the post 23 and at the other end to the pin 22, the latter connecting the bifurcated portions of the lever near its upper end, is entirely in the plane of the unit wheel: it is elongated when the rack is driven forwardly and acts as a pressure means for returning the rack to its initial position. The extreme lower end of the lever is bent downwardly to come into close contact with the forward end of the head of the units rack, there being a portion of the rack cut away to make room for this lever end and the lever is provided with ears 20 (observable in Figs. 1, 2 and 3) which are bent rearwardly to contact with both the front and back side walls of the head of the units rack. It will be seen that the distribution of weight of the lever is such as to make its lower end which engages with the unit rack of extreme lightness; this end is also yielding so that the blow of the rack head against the zero stop is scarcely augmented by the momentum of -theglevers The" point of attachment of the spring 22" tothe:

lever, as well as the point "of attachment of a the spring to the post 23 and the spring itself, are all in the vertical; plane of the units wheel. The' return pull] exerted by the spring 22 and the lever 20" on the-units. rack is therefore exactlyioppositeto-the pull" exerted onsaid rack by the units wheel: when it rotates to cause the rac'kto move forvv'ardly until stoppedrby stop bfarlgi T hus the rack is always freefrom operating forces tending to move it laterally in its be'aring upon the carrier 42 particularly-designed, as will now be pointed out, to cooperate with" the above symmetrical operating arrangemen-t whereby a smooth, nonvibrating,

movement of therackis assured";

The units rack carrier 4-2 i'sprovide wide horizontal bearing bottom andfront and back side guide walls; The units racli is made with a broad bottom bearing surface which rides against the bottom bearingsure" face of this channel; the side walls of the.

units rack being guided by the sidewalls of the channel. The rack extends back 'of the plane of the units wheel slightly more than in front thereof, the back portion being slightly reduced in height so asto make room for a top retaining plate-4L2 (Figs 3 and 5) secured to'the top of the. carrier 42 and serving to retain the unitsrack in its channel by overhanging the upper part of the reduced portion of said rack.' It will noted that the shocks are taken up by, the

forward and rearward ends of theunitsrack striking directly against the forward end rear stops 13 and 24 respectively. {The points of these strikings are direct andnot through the intermediary of laterally extend; ing lugs, as is usual in the type of machine under consideration,"and are in the plane of the units wheel and'more specificallya'scthe drawings show, approximatelyin the line of motion of the center of gravity o'f'the rack, The shock of stopping the rack, like its driving, is therefore taken up in said line of motion of the units rack so that there is'no tendency of the rack to lateral motion on its bearing on the raclf carrier under-any of the circumstances of operation. 7

Due to the fact that the'spring operated lever 20 for returning the units rack open c c a channel for the units rack'which has ates entirely outside of the periphery the.

units wheel, the" rack has "been, slightly:

lengthened and for-this reason the-zerostop '24jhas been placed farther 'to-theleft (Fig; 1 than is the case in: Patent 1,193,346 pre; viously mentioned. -Thebolt 28 of the zero,

stop '24; which'bolt is under tension of the" spring29 is moved upwardly-when a key is depressed, or in other words, when the leftfend of lever '53 and the 'gfront end of lever'52 are moved upwardly, by a boltffo p era ting lever 65"pivoted .t ja fixed: partof the machineat 66 'and'c onneoted with the is vers 52 and 53' at the junction of said levers? bymeansof thebifurcated arm 67; This lever '65 is provided with a rounded portion,

65 for contact with theoperatinglug-30 of post 23 as illustrated is an upward extension from the anism. f

INA typographic composing machine em-- the bolt 1 principle of operation of v the rear "stop; is of couise in-n0 way changed" 1 by the interposition of this. lever 1 65. The

framework for the zero stop mechbodying the following instrumentalities, to-

wit: a vunits'lwheel, a units rack support pro 7 vided' with a horizontal bearing surface, 21;

units rack supported on said surface, a spring and lever device for "returningrthe units rack to initial position and forward and rear stops for arresting the rack, said wheel, rack, spring; and leverlying in approximately the vertical "plane extending through 'the' line of motionof the center er a gravity of the rack and said stops lying in said line of motion, whereby the forces for t moving the rack and the means for arresting its motion in each direction are applied directly'in said lineiofniotion' bodying the' following ihst rumentalities, towit'pa units wheel,- aunits rack support pro vided'with a horizontal bearingsurfa'ce, a units rack supported on said surface and located in the plane of the wheel, aalever pivoted at its upper end and having a bifure cated, rigid upper portion straddling the wheel and a lower spring portion in the plane of said wheel'a'nd engaging directly withsaid-rack, a rear stop, and a spring coma nected with the rigid portion of the leyer and tending to retain the rack againstsaid rear stop; T r 3:. Atypogra'phic composing machine embodying the following instrumentalities, to-

wit: a units wheel, a units rack supportprovided with a horizontal bearingsurfalce and with sidej and top guide surfaces, a units rack supported on sald bearing surface, and preventedby said gulde surfaces, from accivdentallybecoining displaced, a spring and @lever device for returningthe units rack to initialposition, forward and rear stops for arresting the rack, said wheel, rack and 105' t 2. .A typograph c composing machine emspring and lever device lying in approximately the vertical plane extending-through the line of motion of the center of gravity of the rack and saidstops lying in said line, whereby the forces for moving the rack and the means for arresting its motion in each direction tend to maintain it on its bearing surface vand to prevent its lateral vibration on said surface. a

. 4. A: typographical composing machine embodying the following instrumentalities, to-wit: a units rack support provided with a horizontal bearing surface and with top and side guide surfaces, a units rack supported on said bearing surface during rest and motion in each direction, a units wheel for driving the rack forwardly while maintaining it on said bearing surface, a spring and lever device for returning the rack to initial position while maintaining it on said surface and forward and rear stops for arresting the motion of the rack, said stops being in the line of motion of the center of gravity of the rack.

5. A lever for operating a rack constituting a part of the measuring mechanism of a typographic composing machine, said lever being formed of a single integral piece of sheet metal by bending and comprising a bifurcated, rigid upper portion and a lower spring portion rigid laterally of the plane of the lever and yieldaable in said plane.

JOHN SELLERS BANCROFT.

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